State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

Three suspects were arrested after police found over $4,000 worth of stolen merchandise in Irvine. The suspects were ...

The Office of the Ohio Public Defender is finding itself at odds with the state attorney general and some Republican lawmakers as the former argues against adding nitrogen hypoxia as a legal means of ...

For centuries, capital punishment has been instated in a variety of different countries and states within the United States.

The Arizona Supreme Court scheduled Richard Djerf's execution for October 17 after he pleaded guilty to a 1993 quadruple ...

The U.S. has seen 34 executions so far in 2025, with eight more scheduled for later this year, including seven this month ...

Community members came together to protest the death penalty as the conversation ramps up over its legality in North Carolina ...

Ralph Baze has spent more than three decades in the Kentucky State Penitentiary, convicted of killing Powell County Sheriff Steve Bennett and Deputy Arthur Briscoe in 1992. Kentucky’s last execution ...

Samuel L. Smithers' final appeal to halt his execution has reached the nation's highest court, one day after the Florida ...

North Carolina has 122 inmates on death row – the nation’s fifth largest – but hasn’t carried out an execution since Samuel Flippen was put to death by lethal injection on Aug. 18, 2006. Since then, ...